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Truth ranks hell, doctoring, and love, then restages the same question for literature, where the third drafy wins.

This page is funny because it treats existential and editorial orders with the same deadpan seriousness. Love and raising hell are set beside doctoring, then literature enters with its own hierarchy of drafts. The misspelled final word only sharpens the charm, because the page praises revision while staying visibly uncorrected.

Titled 'Truth,' the page runs two deadpan catechisms in the same call-and-response form. Under 'Truth,' the ranked answers are 'Raising Hell,' 'Being a doctor,' and 'Falling in love' - mischief, vocation, and feeling held in one ledger. Under 'Literature,' the ladder is 'A first draft,' 'A second draft,' and, as the best, 'The third drafy.' The accidental misspelling on that final word is its own quiet irony: the poem crowns revision while standing visibly uncorrected. Source spelling 'drafy' is preserved.